Routing MIDI via ReWire 2

The following description is based on using Reason Essentials with Cubase as the host application. For descriptions on how to route MIDI to Reason Essentials and Reason from other host applications, please go to www.propellerheads.se/rewirehelp.

1.	In Cubase, select a MIDI track that you want to route to a Reason Essentials device.

2.	Pull down the MIDI Output menu for the track (in the Inspector or track list).

All devices in the current Reason Essentials Song are listed on the pop-up menu, along with the conventional, “physical” MIDI outputs.

3.	Select a Reason Essentials device from the pop-up menu.

The output of the MIDI track is now routed to that device.

•	If you now play back a MIDI part on the track, the MIDI notes will be sent to the Reason Essentials device - just as if the track were connected to any regular MIDI sound source.

The sound of the device will be sent back into Cubase via ReWire - which channel it will appear on depends on how you have routed the device to the Hardware Interface in Reason Essentials, as discussed above.

•	To play the device “live”, you need to select the proper MIDI input for the track in Cubase (the input to which your MIDI keyboard is connected) and activate the Monitor button for the track.

When the Monitor button is activated, all incoming MIDI (i.e. what you play on the keyboard) is immediately sent to the track’s MIDI Output (i.e. to the Reason Essentials device).